Originally Posted by
brosnan6
Oh crap, and here I thought I lucked out with the only nonstop I thought they had. Since the flight number is the same, does that mean I have to change planes too or is it like WN where we just stop and more people get on? Every flight I've taken on DL has involved a change of planes so this whole same flight # business is new to me...
Most likely you won't have to change planes nor get off the plane. Every so often these flights that are called "through flights" in industry terminology do have a plane change for operational reasons at the intermediate stop.
Sometimes there are same flight number flights that have a planned plane change at the hub ("change of gauge" flights for example DL66 operates as MD88 DFW-ATL then B763 ATL-ZRH). But what I'm saying is that there are occasional through flights that are not change of gauge where for some operational reason you will have different ships operating different segments (i.e. maintenance routing requirements or "stub origination" when equip is delayed inbound).
But, I'd give you a 75%+ chance of not having to change planes!